Almost untreatable superbug CPE poses serious threat to patients, doctors warn

Immune to some of the last-line antibiotics available to hospitals, cases of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae are on the rise, NHS data reveals

" Read the Bureau of Investigative Journalism's report on the rise of CPE

Doctors are warning that the rise of an almost untreatable superbug, immune to some of the last-line antibiotics available to hospitals, poses a serious threat to patients.